Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann20
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England19
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane15
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate14
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales13
Book Review: Thinking Collectively. Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good by Paul Spicker13
Banishment12
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States12
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali11
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalungi10
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson10
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson10
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment9
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso9
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China8
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality8
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop8
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth8
It Shouldn't Happen Here: Colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign7
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?7
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch7
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler6
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme6
Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne6
Social solidarity and deservingness6
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration6
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act6
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace6
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour5
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice5
‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income5
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies5
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances5
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions5
Book Review: The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay4
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England3
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant3
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu3
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie3
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden3
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise3
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland3
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett2
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland2
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground2
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power2
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy2
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives2
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today2
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett2
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire2
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state2
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak2
Book Review: Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi and Enrica Morlicchio Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective2
Book Review: The Case for a Four Day Week by Anna Coote, Aidan Harper and Alfie Stirling2
Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand2
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett2
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy2
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